A Not-So-Unexciting Life -Essays on Benedictine History and Spirituality in Honor of Michael Casey, Ocso (Cistercian Studies)

Author: Posa, Carmel, SGS
Publisher: Cistercian Publications
Category: Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Christian Communities & Monasticism, Spirituality & Religious Experience, Religious Institutions & Organizations, Religious Communities & Monasticism
Book Format: Paperback

This volume, written by eighteen monks, nuns, and lay scholars from seven countries and four continents, aims to recognize the contribution that Michael Casey has made to Cistercian and Benedictine life over the past forty years. Acclaimed as one of the most significant writers in the Benedictine and Cistercian tradition, Casey has published over one hundred articles and reviews in various journals, written more than eighteen books, and edited many more books and journals. He is a world-renowned retreat master, lecturer, and formator.

Contributors include: Carmel Posa, SGS; David Tomlins, OCSO; Helen Lombard, SGS; Manuela Scheiba, OSB; David Barry, OSB; Mary Collins, OSB; Brendan Thomas, OSB; Elias Dietz, OCSO; Constant J. Mews; Bernardo Bonowitz, OCSO; Terrence Kardong, OSB; Elizabeth Freeman; Austin Cooper, OMI; Katharine Massam; Margaret Malone, SGS; Bernhard A. Eckerstorfer, OSB; Columba Stewart, OSB; Francisco Rafael de Pascual, OCSO; and Bishop Graeme Rutherford

Table Of Contents
Contents
List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Carmel Posa, SGS

Chapter 1 Michael: A Short Biography

David Tomlins, OCSO

Chapter 2 Benedict's Balanced Lifestyle: Is This Your Life?

Helen Lombard, SGS

Chapter 3 The Exciting Life of Being a Questioner

Manuela Scheiba, OSB

Chapter 4 Welcoming the Word-Then and Now

David Barry, OSB

Chapter 5 Ritualizing Endings for the Sake of New Beginnings

Mary Collins, OSB

Chapter 6 Benedict and Francis: Two Popes and Two Saints in Conversation

Brendan Thomas, OSB

Chapter 7 Magistra Humilitas: Young Bernard's Hardest Lesson

Elias Dietz, OCSO

Chapter 8 Bernard of Clairvaux and Richard of Saint-Victor on the Pursuit of Ecstasy and the Development of a Mystical Theology

Constant J. Mews

Chapter 9 A Mirror for Abbots: The Pastoral Prayer of Saint Aelred

Bernardo Bonowitz, OCSO

Chapter 10 Who Wrote the Rule of Walbert?

Terrence Kardong, OSB

Chapter 11 Medieval English Nuns and the Benedictine Rule: The Evidence and Example of Wintney Priory

Elizabeth Freeman

Chapter 12 Some Benedictine Legacies

Austin Cooper, OMI

Chapter 13 Cloister and Community

Katharine Massam

Chapter 14 Aequo animo: With a Quiet Mind

Margaret Malone, SGS

Chapter 15 Monasticism in an Age of Transition: A European Perspective

Bernhard A. Eckerstorfer, OSB

Chapter 16 Musings of a (Post)Modern Monastic Historian

Columba Stewart, OSB

Chapter 17 Father Michael Casey, OCSO: A Teacher of Monks for our Time: An Interview

Francisco Rafael de Pascual, OCSO

End Note: Michael Casey: A Poet of the Logos

Bishop Graeme Rutherford

List of Contributors

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